Balingup lies along Western Australia's South Western Highway roughly equidistant from Perth, the state capital, and Albany on the southern coast.
Ballarat, Victoria, the city with a gold-rush past, is the state's largest inland city.
Part of the indigenous multi-arts displays at Tandanya, the National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, in Adelaide.
One of Australia's best known wine regions. Visit the wineries, taste the wine.
This is part of the Tiwi Islands group north of Darwin in the Northern Territory, a place to visit for its indigenous people, culture, arts and crafts.
Tasmania's 29-kilometre ribbon of sea, surf and sand that is the Bay of Fires is renowned for its island beach culture, cosy cottages and nature walks.
Baz Luhrmann is one of Australia's best known movie directors achieving prominence with his much-awarded films Strictly Ballroom, Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge.
One of Australia's most imaginative, most innovative film directors, Baz Luhrmann has three outstanding films to his credit, the only three movies he has directed so far.
A solitary person on a stretch of beach at Coffs Harbour.
There have been a number of beach deaths in Australia which could have easily been prevented or reduced through the taking of simple precautions. Here are some basic rules to follow.
An idyllic Australian country town on the banks of a river, home to artists and crafstmen and people seeking an alternative lifestyle, Bellingen is the film location for the new Australian movie "Eucalyptus" with Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman.
Discover cool water and an oasis of green in the outer southwestern suburbs.
Bermagui on the New South Wales Sapphire Coast is a fishing village where American writer and fisherman Zane Grey stayed in the 1930s.
A plus for Manly Beach is its easy accessibility by ferry from Sydney's Circular Quay.
The best Sydney hotel depends to an extremely large extent on personal experience and personal preferences.
The best Sydney wildlife park is probably where you can see the animals close at hand and even walk with or feed them.
The Sydney autumn, from March 1 to May 31, is a quieter, cooler -- and less expensive -- time than the Sydney summer.
In the spring (September 1 to November 30), the weather's great, it is a time of regrowth and, yes, romance is in the air.
The Australian summer is a time of great cultural activity -- outstanding theatre, street performances, art exhibitions -- as well as a time of pilgrimage to the beach.
If you prefer the cold to heat, especially if seeking to esape the northern summer, the best time to visit Sydney could be in the Australian winter.
Australia: The Big Island. Here's some of what you need to know about the land Down Under.
State flower of Tasmania.
West of Sydney, a popular daytrip destination. Much of the Blue Mountains region is a World Heritage site.
In a country where Christmas takes place in the summer, it seemed only a matter of time before people started enjoying the spirit and the trappings of Christmas in the middle of the Australian year, which is when it's winter in Australia. So was born Christmas in July and Yulefest in the New South Wales Blue Mountains.
The blue-ringed octopus has a highly venomoous bite.
Photographed on Lord Howe Island off the northern coast of New South Wales.
This is where Captain James Cook first landed in Australia in 1770. Not only a hisorical site but a place for picnics and leisure activities.
A bottlenose dolphin at Monkey Mia in Western Australia.
The Bowral Tulip Time Festival is held each spring in the New South Wales Southern Highlands southwest of Sydney.
Close to Queensland's Airlie Beach and the Whitsunday resort islands, the seaside town of Bowen is a place for lazy beach holidays with a spot of snorkeling and scuba diving and barbecues in the park.
It's the day after Christmas Day, a national public holiday in Australia and New Zealand.
Australian artist Brett Whiteley (1939-1992), in the forefront of Australia's avant-garde art movement, was the recipient of a number of prizes and awards, with his work hanging in numerous galleries including the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, the Tate Gallery in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Map of the Brisbane city centre along the Brisbane River.
A close look at Australia's third largest city. What to see, what to do.
Queensland's capital city and its environs.
Tall crane, over 1 metre, found in Australia's tropical wetlands.
It's not the nearest place to go but with regular two-and-half-hour flights from Perth, the coastal pearling town of Broome is hardly inaccessible now and has become a year-round holiday drawcard.
The buloke is a leafless casuarina or sheoak tree growing to some 15 metres with fine, twisted, grey-green branchlets and woody cones belonging to the genus Allocasuarina and generally found in eastern Australia.
The Kimberley's Bungle Bungle (Purnululu) National Park is distinguished by its rounded rock towers striped horizontally in alternating orange and black.
Walter Burley Griffin is the American architect who designed Canberra, Australia's capital city.
Australian bushfires pose a danger to visitors and locals alike during the bushfire season.
A golden beach arcing into the horizon at Byron Bay.
Built in 1901 and one of the most powerful in the southern hemisphere.
A popular destination on the New South Wales North Coast - closer to the Queensland border than it is to the NSW capital, Sydney - Byron Bay is a magnet for visitors following the sun, particularly in winter, and for those intrigued by a culture that mixes fun, surfing and a laid-back alternative lifestyle with a more traditional, country existence.
